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CYCLE HANDLE 'NO- 490,459- Patented'Jan. 24, 1893.-

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STATES ALEXANDER STRAUS,

OF NEWT YORK, N. Y.

CYCLE-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,459, dated January 24, 1893.

Application and July 2s, 1892.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER STRAUS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cycle-Handles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it. appertains to make and use the same.

The invention is fully shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a side View of the handle, xed upon the handlebar. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 Fig. l.

The object of the invention is to producea handle that shall be light, sufficiently strong, clean and durable, that shall resist slipping of the hand and shallimpart to the hand little or no odor of rubber or other material.

In the drawings, A is the handle bar and B a handle thereon. The latter consists of pieces of cork to be united by a cement, preferably composed of rubber and ground or comminuted cork, the smooth outer faces of the pieces C C form portions of the general outer surface of the handle and the cement between said pieces makes up the remainder of said surface. The pieces C C may extend inward to the handle bar, but this is not essential. To form the handle the smooth outer faces of the pieces C, C are pasted to u expensive and is not as tough as it is desirable to have the material of which a handle is composed. If rubber and ground cork be molded into a handle the product loses some Seal No. 441,063. (No model.)

of the disadvantages of solid cork, but only the salient points of the comminuted cork reach the surface and therefore the hand comes in contact with rubber, for the most part. But if the handle be formed as set forth, nearly the whole outer surface is ofcork, the handle is nearly as light as solid cork, has more than the corks elasticity, and

yet the strain imparted by the hand is in noI case applied to a piece large enough to be broken thereby; and for analogous reasons the handle is not easily injured by blows or rough usage. cally all the advantages of cork and of rubber and has none of the disadvantages of either.

In short the handle has practil. A- handle having its outer surface made up of bits of cork united by rubber or analogous elastic cement.

2. A handle composed of pieces of cork united by a mixture of rubber and ground cork.

3. A handle of rubber and ground cork having largerI pieces of cork set in its surface with their outer faces forming part of the general surface of the handle.

4. The method of forming a handle which consists in pasting the broad surfaces of pieces of cork upon the interior surface of a handle mold, filling the remaining space With a cement of rubber and ground cork and subjecting the whole to pressure.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER STRAUS.

Witnesses:

ROBERT J. CUMMINGs, L. F. STILWELL.

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